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050 4 _aHM671 .Y687 2005
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100 1 _aBrown, Michelle P.
245 1 0 _aYou're History! :
_bHow People Make the Difference.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Publishing Plc,
_c2005.
264 4 _c©2005.
300 _a1 online resource (466 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aIntro -- Contents -- A Poet's Response: De Rong Radio -- Contributors -- Foreword: From Live Aid to Live 8 -- Preface: the UN Millennium Campaign -- Introduction: History in the making -- Making Poverty History -- The UN Declaration of Human Rights, printed with comments -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 'It's Positively Medieval': Challenging Some Preconceptions of History -- Inequality: A Modest Proposal? -- The Other, Man-made Tsunami -- Africa, the Crisis Continent? -- How the Modern-day Missionaries Called 'Human Rights Activists' Help Wreak Havoc in Africa -- Twenty Years with AIDS -- Reviving Democracy -- Celebrating the Heroes of Democracy -- Cinema in Control and Conscience: Moviemakers from 'Double V' to McCarthyism -- Time to Make War History As Well -- Islam: Clash or Dialogue of Civilizations? -- Conflict and Personal Liberty -- What Price Imprisonment? -- 'Places Without a Future': the Jarrow March and the Great Depression -- Reporters on the Line: Risk Taking and Conscience in the Former Soviet Union -- The Media's Fault? -- Genocide: the Violence and the Silence -- Change - and North Korea: Is Aid Really Making a Difference? -- The Dregs in the Pot of Gold: the Irish Experience of Exchanging Dignity for Racism -- Silent Suffering, Stoic Resistance: Human Rights Abuses of Women and Children in Latin America -- Pious Aspiration or a Tool for Change? The Significance of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- The Politics of Sexuality: Faith - the Final Frontier? -- Surviving Ourselves: Environment, Society and the Future of Our Civilization -- Greenbacks in the Garden of Eden: an Essay on How Not to Save the Rainforests -- Ourselves and Other Animals: the Ethics of Farming -- The Human Race - a Marathon, not a Sprint: the Millennium Development Goals and their Ethos -- Appendices: 'So you think you know about...?'.
505 8 _aThe Millennium Development Goals -- The Faces of Poverty -- Modern-day Slavery -- Women's Rights -- Childhood under Threat -- Disability Rights -- The Death Penalty -- Arms and the Arms Trade -- Global Landmine Crisis.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aSocial justice.
650 0 _aResponsibility.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aKelly, Richard J.
700 1 _aGeldof, Bob.
700 1 _aKelly, Richard J.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aBrown, Michelle P.
_tYou're History!
_dLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2005
_z9780826488985
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5309728
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